The First Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Shlomo was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house. {7:2} For he built the house of the forest of
Levanon; the length of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of
it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of
cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. {7:3} It was covered
with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars;
fifteen in a row. {7:4} There were beams in three rows, and window was
over against window in three ranks. {7:5} All the doors and posts were
made square with beams: and window was over against window in three
ranks. {7:6} He made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty
cubits, and the breadth of it thirty cubits; and a porch before them;
and pillars and a threshold before them. {7:7} He made the porch of
the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it
was covered with cedar from floor to floor. {7:8} His house where he
was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work.
He made also a house for Par`oh's daughter (whom Shlomo had taken as
wife), like this porch. {7:9} All these were of costly stones, even of
hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside,
even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the
great court. {7:10} The foundation was of costly stones, even great
stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. {7:11} Above
were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and
cedar-wood. {7:12} The great court round about had three courses of
hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of
the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house. {7:13} King Shlomo
sent and fetched Hiram out of Tzor. {7:14} He was the son of a widow
of the tribe of Naftali, and his father was a man of Tzor, a worker in
brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to
work all works in brass. He came to king Shlomo, and performed all his
work. {7:15} For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen
cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of
them about. {7:16} He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the
tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits,
and the height of the other capital was five cubits. {7:17} There were
nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals
which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and
seven for the other capital. {7:18} So he made the pillars; and there
were two rows round about on the one network, to cover the capitals
that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other
capital. {7:19} The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in
the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. {7:20} There were capitals
above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the
network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about on
the other capital. {7:21} He set up the pillars at the porch of the
temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name of it
Yakhin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name of it
Bo`az. {7:22} On the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work
of the pillars finished. {7:23} He made the molten sea of ten cubits
from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height of it was five
cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about. {7:24}
Under the brim of it round about there were buds which did compass it,
for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: the buds were in two
rows, cast when it was cast. {7:25} It stood on twelve oxen, three
looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three
looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the
sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
{7:26} It was a handbreadth thick: and the brim of it was worked like
the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand
baths. {7:27} He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the
length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three
cubits the height of it. {7:28} The work of the bases was on this
manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;
{7:29} and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions,
oxen, and Keruvim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and
beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. {7:30} Every
base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of
it had supports: beneath the basin were the supports molten, with
wreaths at the side of each. {7:31} The mouth of it within the capital
and above was a cubit: and the mouth of it was round after the work of
a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on the mouth of it were
engravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round. {7:32} The
four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels
were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a
cubit. {7:33} The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot
wheel: their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves,
were all molten. {7:34} There were four supports at the four corners
of each base: the supports of it were of the base itself. {7:35} In
the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and
on the top of the base the stays of it and the panels of it were of
the same. {7:36} On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels
of it, he engraved Keruvim, lions, and palm trees, according to the
space of each, with wreaths round about. {7:37} After this manner he
made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one
form. {7:38} He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty
baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten
bases one basin. {7:39} He set the bases, five on the right side of
the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea
on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. {7:40}
Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made
an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Shlomo in the
house of the LORD: {7:41} the two pillars, and the two bowls of the
capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to
cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars; {7:42} and the four hundred pomegranates for the two
networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; {7:43} and the ten
bases, and the ten basins on the bases; {7:44} and the one sea, and
the twelve oxen under the sea; {7:45} and the pots, and the shovels,
and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king
Shlomo, in the house of the LORD, were of burnished brass. {7:46} In
the plain of the Yarden did the king cast them, in the clay ground
between Sukkot and Tzaretan. {7:47} Shlomo left all the vessels
[unweighed], because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass
could not be found out. {7:48} Shlomo made all the vessels that were
in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, and the table whereupon
the show bread was, of gold; {7:49} and the menorot, five on the right
side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the
flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; {7:50} and the cups,
and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans,
of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house,
the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the
temple, of gold. {7:51} Thus all the work that king Shlomo worked in
the house of the LORD was finished. Shlomo brought in the things which
David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and
the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
{8:1} Then Shlomo assembled the Zakenim of Yisra'el, and all the
heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the
children of Yisra'el, to king Shlomo in Yerushalayim, to bring up the
ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is
Tziyon. {8:2} All the men of Yisra'el assembled themselves to king
Shlomo at the feast, in the month Etanim, which is the seventh month.
{8:3} All the Zakenim of Yisra'el came, and the [1>]Kohanim[<1] took
up the ark. {8:4} They brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tent of
meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these
did the [2>]Kohanim[<2] and the Levites bring up. {8:5} King Shlomo
and all the congregation of Yisra'el, who were assembled to him, were
with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be
counted nor numbered for multitude. {8:6} The [3>]Kohanim[<3] brought
in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the oracle
of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the
Keruvim. {8:7} For the Keruvim spread forth their wings over the place
of the ark, and the Keruvim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
{8:8} The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from
the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and
there they are to this day. {8:9} There was nothing in the ark save
the two tables of stone which Moshe put there at Horev, when the LORD
made a covenant with the children of Yisra'el, when they came out of
the land of Mitzrayim. {8:10} It came to pass, when the
[4>]Kohanim[<4] were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled
the house of the LORD, {8:11} so that the [5>]Kohanim[<5] could not
stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD
filled the house of the LORD. {8:12} Then spoke Shlomo, the LORD has
said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. {8:13} I have surely
built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.
{8:14} The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of
Yisra'el: and all the assembly of Yisra'el stood. {8:15} He said,
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, who spoke with his mouth to
David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, {8:16}
Since the day that I brought forth my people Yisra'el out of
Mitzrayim, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Yisra'el to build
a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my
people Yisra'el. {8:17} Now it was in the heart of David my father to
build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el. {8:18}
But the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to
build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
{8:19} nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who
shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my
name. {8:20} The LORD has established his word that he spoke; for I am
risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of
Yisra'el, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name
of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el. {8:21} There have I set a place for
the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our
fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim. {8:22}
Shlomo stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the
assembly of Yisra'el, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; {8:23}
and he said, LORD, the God of Yisra'el, there is no God like you, in
heaven above, or on [6>]eretz[<6] beneath; who keep covenant and
lovingkindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their
heart; {8:24} who have kept with your servant David my father that
which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have
fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. {8:25} Now therefore,
LORD, the God of Yisra'el, keep with your servant David my father that
which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in
my sight to sit on the throne of Yisra'el, if only your children take
heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.
{8:26} Now therefore, God of Yisra'el, Please let your word be
verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. {8:27} But
will God in very deed dwell on the [7>]eretz[<7]? behold, heaven and
the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that
I have built! {8:28} Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant,
and for his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the
prayer which your servant prays before you this day; {8:29} that your
eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the
place whereof you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the
prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place. {8:30} Listen
you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Yisra'el,
when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your
dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive. {8:31} If a man sin
against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to
swear, and he come [and] swear before your altar in this house; {8:32}
then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning
the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the
righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. {8:33} When
your people Yisra'el are struck down before the enemy, because they
have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your
name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house: {8:34} then
hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Yisra'el, and
bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. {8:35}
When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have
sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your
name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them: {8:36} then
hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your
people Yisra'el, when you teach them the good way in which they should
walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people
for an inheritance. {8:37} If there be in the land famine, if there be
pestilence, if there be blasting [or] mildew, [8>]arbeh[<8] [or]
caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities;
whatever plague, whatever sickness there be; {8:38} whatever prayer
and supplication be made by any man, [or] by all your people Yisra'el,
who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth
his hands toward this house: {8:39} then hear in heaven, your
dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according
to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know
the hearts of all the children of men;) {8:40} that they may fear you
all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
{8:41} Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people
Yisra'el, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake
{8:42} (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty
hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray
toward this house; {8:43} hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do
according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the
peoples of the [9>]eretz[<9] may know your name, to fear you, as does
your people Yisra'el, and that they may know that this house which I
have built is called by my name. {8:44} If your people go out to
battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and
they pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and
toward the house which I have built for your name; {8:45} then hear in
heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
{8:46} If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin),
and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that
they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or
near; {8:47} yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where
they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you
in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned,
and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; {8:48} if they
return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land
of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward
their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have
chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: {8:49} then
hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your
dwelling-place, and maintain their cause; {8:50} and forgive your
people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in
which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion
before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion
on them {8:51} (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which
you brought forth out of Mitzrayim, from the midst of the furnace of
iron); {8:52} that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your
servant, and to the supplication of your people Yisra'el, to listen to
them whenever they cry to you. {8:53} For you did separate them from
among all the peoples of the [10>]eretz[<10], to be your inheritance,
as you spoke by Moshe your servant, when you brought our fathers out
of Mitzrayim, Lord GOD. {8:54} It was so, that when Shlomo had made an
end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose
from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his
hands spread forth toward heaven. {8:55} He stood, and blessed all the
assembly of Yisra'el with a loud voice, saying, {8:56} Blessed be the
LORD, who has given rest to his people Yisra'el, according to all that
he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise,
which he promised by Moshe his servant. {8:57} The LORD our God be
with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake
us; {8:58} that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his
ways, and to keep his [11>]mitzvot[<11], and his statutes, and his
ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. {8:59} Let these my words,
with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the
LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant,
and the cause of his people Yisra'el, as every day shall require;
{8:60} that all the peoples of the [12>]eretz[<12] may know that the
LORD, he is God; there is none else. {8:61} Let your heart therefore
be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep
his [13>]mitzvot[<13], as at this day. {8:62} The king, and all
Yisra'el with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. {8:63} Shlomo
offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to the
LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand
sheep. So the king and all the children of Yisra'el dedicated the
house of the LORD. {8:64} The same day did the king make the middle of
the court holy that was before the house of the LORD; for there he
offered the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the
peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was
too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and
the fat of the peace-offerings. {8:65} So Shlomo held the feast at
that time, and all Yisra'el with him, a great assembly, from the
entrance of Hamat to the brook of Mitzrayim, before the LORD our God,
seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. {8:66} On the eighth
day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to
their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the
LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Yisra'el his people.
{9:1} It happened, when Shlomo had finished the building of the
house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Shlomo's desire which
he was pleased to do, {9:2} that the LORD appeared to Shlomo the
second time, as he had appeared to him at Giv`on. {9:3} The LORD said
to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have
made before me: I have made this house holy, which you have built, to
put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there
perpetually. {9:4} As for you, if you will walk before me, as David
your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes
and my ordinances; {9:5} then I will establish the throne of your
kingdom over Yisra'el forever, according as I promised to David your
father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of
Yisra'el. {9:6} But if you shall turn away from following me, you or
your children, and not keep my [1>]mitzvot[<1] and my statutes which I
have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship
them; {9:7} then will I cut off Yisra'el out of the land which I have
given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Yisra'el shall be a proverb and a byword
among all peoples. {9:8} Though this house is so high, yet shall
everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they
shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?
{9:9} and they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God,
who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Mitzrayim, and laid
hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has
the LORD brought all this evil on them. {9:10} It happened at the end
of twenty years, in which Shlomo had built the two houses, the house
of the LORD and the king's house {9:11} (now Hiram the king of Tzor
had furnished Shlomo with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold,
according to all his desire), that then king Shlomo gave Hiram twenty
cities in the land of the Galil. {9:12} Hiram came out from Tzor to
see the cities which Shlomo had given him; and they didn't please him.
{9:13} He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my
brother? He called them the land of Kavul to this day. {9:14} Hiram
sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold. {9:15} This is
the reason of the levy which king Shlomo raised, to build the house of
the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Yerushalayim,
and Hatzor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. {9:16} Par`oh king of Mitzrayim
had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the
Kana`anim who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his
daughter, Shlomo's wife. {9:17} Shlomo built Gezer, and Beit-Horon the
lower, {9:18} and Ba`alat, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
{9:19} and all the store-cities that Shlomo had, and the cities for
his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Shlomo
desired to build for his pleasure in Yerushalayim, and in Levanon, and
in all the land of his dominion. {9:20} As for all the people who were
left of the Amori, the Hitti, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi,
who were not of the children of Yisra'el; {9:21} their children who
were left after them in the land, whom the children of Yisra'el were
not able utterly to destroy, of them did Shlomo raise a levy of
bondservants to this day. {9:22} But of the children of Yisra'el did
Shlomo make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his
servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his
chariots and of his horsemen. {9:23} These were the chief officers who
were over Shlomo's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the
people who labored in the work. {9:24} But Par`oh's daughter came up
out of the city of David to her house which [Shlomo] had built for
her: then did he build Millo. {9:25} Three times a year did Shlomo
offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built
to the LORD, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before
the LORD. So he finished the house. {9:26} King Shlomo made a navy of
ships in `Etzyon-Gever, which is beside Elot, on the shore of the Sea
of Suf, in the land of Edom. {9:27} Hiram sent in the navy his
servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of
Shlomo. {9:28} They came to Ofir, and fetched from there gold, four
hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Shlomo.
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Footnotes:
[1] {8:3} priests
[2] {8:4} priests
[3] {8:6} priests
[4] {8:10} priests
[5] {8:11} priests
[6] {8:23} earth
[7] {8:27} earth
[8] {8:37} locust
[9] {8:43} earth
[10] {8:53} earth
[11] {8:58} commandments
[12] {8:60} earth
[13] {8:61} commandments
[1] {9:6} commandments
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